Thursday, February 24, 2011

6 Weeks Postpartum

I had my 6 week check up today, at just 4 ½ weeks, pretty good eh. I don’t know what calendar the nurse was looking at when she scheduled me but I decided to just go with it. Everything is back in its proper place and I got the ok to do all the things I have been doing. I was told I could not lift anything heavier than the baby, I think that was just for the first 2 weeks but even that was pretty much impossible. I never realized how often I had to pick keelin up until I was told I should not.

Here is how the conversation with the dr went.

Dr. A – So you delivered your baby in the parking lot.

Me – yeah

Dr A. – You should have listened to me shouldn’t you have

Me – yeah, (which was a lie but I was not going to get in to my feelings on induction with him)

Dr A – was it the hospital parking lot

Me – no we were on our way to the hospital

Dr A.-- but the baby is ok

Me – yeah, she is very healthy

Dr A.-- good. did you panic?

Me – Yeah

Dr A. – but everything turned out ok so its ok

Dr A. – have you deciding on what kind of birth control you want to use

Me – we’re just gonna wing it

The last part is not entirely true, but those details are unimportant. I would love to have a planned home birth next time, planned and home being the key words. If that does not work out I would go back to Dr A. I liked the dr’s I had with Keelin but this guy seemed a lot more flexible, and I expected him to give me a hard time about not making it to the hospital but the conversation was very light hatred. There is something about his style of doctoring that I really like, and I like the way the office was run.

1 comment:

CanadianMama said...

I would have had a parking lot baby too if I wasn't already at the hospital when my water broke! Glad you are doing well, that must have been super freaky!

Not sure what you are planning as far as spacing but it is totally possible to get pregnant when nursing (trust me)!